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国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, April 1997 Continued Cool, with Occasional Tsunamis Is it us, or do things seem to be getting a little less pleasant out there? By Debra Shore Golly, it was a super year, wasn’t it? We’re speaking of…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, April 1999 Near to the Ground It hasn’t been a bad decade for the environment, all things considered. But before you send those huzzahs 霉 and your checks 霉 to those far-off groups in Washington,…
Camping Special, April 1997 The Dandelion Says Go Home Do-it-yourself meteorology, as taught by the flora and fauna By Steven M. Krauzer What’s the best way to predict the weather when you’re in the backcountry? “Carry a radio,” says Peter…
Destinations, April 1997 Eric Heiden Slept Here In Lake Placid, the locals have a hard time letting go By Katie Arnold As the road curves past malfunction Junction at the outskirts of town, you begin to notice the cutely gabled…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, April 1997 Another Herbal Wrap, O Immortal One? Should fortune, fame, and flabby acolytes be your heart’s desire, the first American sumo champion suggests thinking really, really big By Brad Wetzler When he…
Dispatches, April 1997 Sport: Carving Toward Destiny? Chris Davenport tries to secure the top spot in extreme-skiing history–on his own terms By Michael Finkel E A R 聽 T O 聽 T H E G R O U N…
Dispatches, April 1999 Sport Spiked Almost Off the Map By Tim Zimmermann Let’s begin with a flashback. Atlanta, Georgia. July 1996. Beach volleyball is making its Olympic debut while serving as party central for a…
Review, April 1997 Buying Right: Bantam Binoculars By Gregory McNamee If you spend time in the backcountry, where there are specific advantages to being able to discern whether that distant lump on the trail is a fallen log or a hungry bear,…
Destinations, April 1997 Smart Traveler: Meet Me in Malaysia or Harare or… The best deals in around-the-world airfares By Everett Potter The next time some kid clutching a battered Lonely Planet guide brags about his cheap consolidator tickets to Hong…
Review, April 1997 All the Tent You Need For most people, most of the time, a super-light shelter for two is just enough By Doug Gantenbein Essentials: Tent Pampering Backcountry truism: Your tent is only as good as…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, April 1999 Go West, and Preferably at Race Pace The training secrets of the athletes on the Old Frontier? Play often, work seldom, and always remember that the good guys wear white. Fashion by…
Dispatches, April 1999 Environment Sprawl? Smog? The New California Says No. Only in la-la land could the same By Melba Newsome Only in La-La Land could the same society that embraced bumper-to-bumper traffic and…
Camping Special, April 1997 The Right Duff Are you sure you know what it takes to pick the perfect campsite? By Brad Wetzler In Plato’s realm of ideals, you’d find the perfect campsite floating in the ether, next to a…
Camping Special, April 1997 Freeze-Dried Is for Losers A guide to culinary success alfresco By Brad Wetzler Anybody can scarf pb&j while perched on a mountain rock, but one might argue that you’re not really camping till you dirty a…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, April 1997 The Horse-Eater, I Presume? In the blue holes of the Bahamas, a hungry leviathan lurks. Our man aimed to find it. By Randy Wayne White Having lived most of his life on Cat Island in the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: The Seamless Escape Butter up the boss and grab your pack–it’s never too late to split for the weekend By Elizabeth Royte Jack (not his real name) is between jobs. This has allowed him to…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Tomato Wars High noon in the garden of good and evil By Randy Wayne White I don’t need a newspaper to tell me that life is a predicament. I can look out my back door and suffer the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: Flatwater Is for Sissies Fear not the aerated froth–canoes can handle whitewater, too By Marni Jackson If you’ve never canoed whitewater before, by all means cut this out, tape it to your paddle, and have…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Reluctant Provider Why bamboo waits so long between incarnations By David Quammen The novelist Louise Erdrich recently published a lapidary one-paragraph essay, excerpted from something longer, that begins, “I would be converted to a religion of grass.” The…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Milestones: Fabien Mazuer, 1976-1995 By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) French sport climber Fabien Mazuer was an athlete you could love: smart, playful with the press, and immensely talented. While still a teenager, he pulled off some…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 What Are You Whining About? Enough with the war stories about your scrapes and tweaks. Meet the people who really give it all to their sport–again and again and again. By Paul Kvinta So, you’ve taken a bad…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Heat-Savvy Training: Heed the Internal Thermometer By Sara Corbett “You have to plan to suffer out there,” says 1995 national Championship Marathon winner Keith Brantly of training in the stifling humidity of his hometown, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “The heat just…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Buying Right: Polarized Sunglasses By Bob Howells Shading against the beach sun means dark specs, a broad-brimmed hat, and a frill-edged umbrella. Shielding against that sun, however, means polarized glasses. There’s a big difference between polarized lenses and all…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Marathon: In Favor of the Draft By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) By recruiting the best American men’s marathon field likely to be seen anywhere this year, race president Bill Burke hoped to inspire the fastest times…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: Strike That Confident Pose Your knees are bent. Your arms are dangling. Your board is long. Now for the soul-arch bottom-turn… By Bucky McMahan This year, in large part because of the momentous, contemplative event…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, May 1995 Politics: …And Drilling Rights for All Can you blame Senator Ted Stevens for putting our land to good use? By Ned Martel Effigy manufacturers should expect brisk sales during this summer’s bonanza of species-protection hearings on Capitol Hill.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Smooth-Sailing Crafts, By Land or By Sea On the car or in the water, boards and boats that are a breeze to handle By Nancy K. Crowell God does not deduct from a man’s life the hours spent…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: Location, Location, Direction For summer-rental perfection, WNW marks the spot By Lawrence Shames If you don’t already have a hand-held compass, get one. String it onto a lanyard, hang it around your neck, and wear…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Strategic Packing: Weigh Your Options By Sara Corbett “When you don’t have time to plan, the easiest thing to do is to overpack,” says Bethel, Maine-based Outward Bound instructor Jim Dowd. “And a backbreaking load of life’s little unnecessities can…
Deep into Anasazi country, and way back in time
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Sport: Let the Blur Spins Begin! The Extreme Games will be hip and on the tube for 50 in-your-face hours. Oh, boy… By Paul Kvinta What would you make of guys in yellow leather bodysuits schussing down your…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 House Hunting: Seek the Unheralded By Sara Corbett Blissfully removed from Jersey shore speedboats and the swank of Hilton Head Island, these five out-of-the-way places promise summer rentals with not a Dairy Queen in sight. Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. Cuttyhunk’s…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Essentials: Water-Loving Sunscreens By Bob Howells Before you pick a sunscreen off the local beach shop shelf consider its tenacity along with its potency. Unless the concoction is waterproof–or, if you go by the Food and Drug Administration’s more accurate…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Climbing: REI Spire and Sentinel By Douglas Gantenbein With the invention of the laminated-foam climbing harness, hanging after a fall or during repeated long rappels has become almost tolerable. Firm but conforming, foam greatly reduces the pinching and binding that…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: Moral Superiority Wears Curve-Lasted Sneakers How to revel in those 95 degree, 70 percent humidity runs By Lynn Snowden Dawn must be breaking, since the only time a sane person runs in 95-degree heat and…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Books: The Dumbo Complex By Miles Harvey When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy (Delacorte Press, $23.95). In what might be considered a most idiosyncratic book, controversial Freud scholar Masson teams…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Duathlon: Stop Your Whining By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Heinous weather was just about the only thing in hot pursuit of top-ranked duathlete Maddy Tormoen at the season-opening Powerman Duathlon in Zofingen, Switzerland, on May 14. Tormoen clobbered the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Paddling: Mission Uncomfortable Mark Robbin’s lonely quest for the other side of the continent By Bill Donahue The setting is bleak–a Motel 6 in the middle of nowhere–and Mark Robbins is weary. “This isn’t fun,” he laments, sprawled…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 How The West Was Bogeyed One word said it all about how Lewis and Clark had moved him: FORE! By Bill Vaughn One word said it all about how Lewis and Clark had moved him:…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Strategies: Breathing on a Gut Level By Suzanne Schlosberg If you’re a middle-of-the-pack runner or cyclist who wants to pull ahead, don’t hold your breath. That’s the advice that excercise physiologist Tim Moore has to offer, and it isn’t as…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Aesthetics: Spare Not the Grace Notes By Bob Shacochis I prefer to think that the wilderness as we have it these days, however attenuated and besieged, is more than ever the last refuge of the raw sensualist, and that the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Genghis On My Mind He plundered half the known world and then disappeared back into Mongolia without a trace, leaving only tales about a lost tomb filled with clues to his legendary–and mystifying–reign. Seven centuries later, a Khan-besotted Maury Kravitz…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Personal Security: And for That Commute to Headquarters… By Jon Gluck Anyone with the corn-fed twang of Bob Seger’s “Like a Rock” lodged in his brain knows that a sport-utility vehicle can handle anything the backcountry can throw at it.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Politics: But Will They Pack Out Their Own T.P.? By Stephanie Pearson A recent poll suggests that if you’re a Republican, chances are you don’t trust your party to be good to the environment. But thanks to the new Republican…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Regimens: Setting Your Warm-up in Motion By Dave Kuehls The traditional preworkout stretching ritual is as old as the planks in that park bench where you regularly perform it. The problem is, it’s about as static too. “You’re essentially standing…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Geography: Dick Clark, Please Report to the Date Line Where will you be when it’s time to party like it’s 1999? By John Galvin The year 2000 may be four sweeps through the calendar away, but the race…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Day Two: Sleight of Spatula Tavern on the Green’s Patrick Clark whips up classic Americana with a dash of deception Patrick Clark insists he didn’t turn down a chance in 1993 to become White House chef for fear of…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Reuse, Recycle, Repeat Refrain It could only happen in the land that spawned grunge. The Garbage Gurus, a trio from Portland, Oregon, have pioneered a new rock genre, “garbage music,” created by banging on old kitchen sinks and plucking stringed instruments fashioned…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Mountaineering: Get Thee Back to Thy Sloop By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) In mountaineering’s answer to professional golf’s seniors tour, legendary American climbers John Roskelley, Jim Wickwire, and Charlie Porter, ages hovering around 50, joined last spring to attempt…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Skills: Piecing Together the Seamless Stroke By Chris Dray “The sculler is a skilled athlete,” says Jim Joy of the craftsbury sculling school in Vermont, “and his or her sculling is an art form–beautiful, graceful, powerful, rhythmic.” Unfortunately, the stroke…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Intake: Energy Bar Alternatives By Dana Sullivan There’s no disputing the convenience of energy bars. There’s also no disputing that when you have the luxury of loading up at home before a workout, your kitchen cabinet holds fuels that are…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Expeditions: The Iceman Conquereth Richard Weber and Misha Malakhov skied to the top of the world and then skied home, without help of any kind. Can anyone top that? By Jon Bowermaster It must have been quite a…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Sport: Excuuuse Me for Living Can Dave Cullinan, cocky heart patient, recapture the worlds? By Eric Hagerman “I’m going to serve John Tomac a big can of whup-ass when I get fit,” says 25-year-old professional mountain biker Dave…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Get All Your Muscles in a Row For a superior full-body workout, take a sliding seat By John Brant A pair of trick sunglasses has made Vesko Nenchev’s day. They’re cheap specs that a friend found in a…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Day Three: World Beat on a WhisperLite Mark Miller, impresario of fare from Southwestern to Asian, offers one-pot solutions for the peripatetic palate Spice packs, it seems, are extremely personal items. Southwestern cuisine authority Mark Miller calls his a…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Environment: Operation Snuff Smokey A slew of bombings casts the U.S. Forest Service in a new role: victim By Jonathan Franklin Guy Pence is sleeping better these days, though it’s still hard to escape the recurring thought, What…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Mountain Biking: The Trials of Stamina Man By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) As endurance specialist John Stamstad pedaled the first of 61 laps around a quaint dirt-and-pebble carriage-road loop in Maine’s Acadia National Park last May, he began to…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Spirituality: The 86-Proof Campfire After you’ve cut superfluous inches off your toothbrush handle, ripped the covers off your paperback, and generally waged war on expendable ounces, it’s important to declare amnesty. Make room for a little self-indulgence–something precious to your soul.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1994 Camping: Outback Oven Ultralight By Douglas Gantenbein A few years back, the editor of these pages had to tone down a glowing review I’d written on the Outback Oven, a great gadget that lets backpackers enjoy fresh, hot baked goods without the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 A Not-So-Sweet Threepeat “What do athletes do when nature calls,” probed USA Today a week after Uta Pippig’s dramatic victory at the 100th Boston Marathon last April, her third-straight triumph. The reference, of course, was to Pippig’s embarrassing predicament: She spent the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Day One: Innovation Within Reason Seattle legend-in-the-making Monique Barbeau looks to expand the boundaries of trailworthy cuisine One of the reigning queens of the current Northwestern culinary scene is Monique Barbeau, head chef of Seattle’s acclaimed Fullers restaurant. “I…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 The Ultimate Hardware Camp stove (Coleman Peak 1 Apex II or MSR WhisperLite Shaker Jet) fuel bottle (MSR or Sigg). In summer, figure on one-third of a quart of fuel per stove per day. Small funnel for filling stove…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Go Ahead, Dis My Kumquat “Someone suddenly says dried apricots give you cancer, you stop eating dried apricots, and the farmer loses his shirt,” huffs John Keeling of the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re tired of people playing loose with the facts.”…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1996 The Little Freshman Who Could Living up to preseason predictions declaring her American sport climbing’s next great hope, 15-year-old Katie Brown won the season-opening U.S. competition last March in Tucson, Arizona. Brown’s victory, her first in adult competition, was impressive, particularly since…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Bear Necessities If you think those Yellowstone grizzlies are scary, wait until you come face to fang with an aggressive raccoon, which will shred a backpack at the first whiff of flank steak or lip balm. So the rule is simple:…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Let There Be High Water By Hampton Sides Thirty-three years after Glen Canyon Dam strangled the West’s most celebrated river, the Grand Canyon gets its first regularly scheduled flood. Only Jehovah could have done it better. We tether our…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Resources: Where to Go to Row By Chris Dray A scull costs anywhere from $1,500 to $8,000 and takes up a good bit of space in the garage, so most people don’t jump into rowing with both oars. Instead, they…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1994 Essentials: If the Boot Fits. . . By Glenn Randall Boots that fit poorly when new won’t get better with time–your feet will give out first. Here’s how to get the size right on the initial go-around: Width Matters…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 The Fine Art of Trail Java “Don’t skimp on great coffee in the place where you just may need it most,” demands Flagstaff river cook Blake Spalding. “Get the best beans and grind them just before your trip.” When it’s time…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Equipment: The Ultratherm Massager By Steve Ilg Modern therapy for inflamed or sore muscles includes consecutive 15-minute sessions alternating between hot and cold applications, ideally done throughout the day. But filling this prescription, until recently, has meant nothing less awkward…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Self-Reliance: Shopping on Location By Doug Peacock I cook (like everyone else) for therapy, and when out on the land, where you have to make do with what’s at hand, one of the best antidotes to an impending disaster…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The South Pacific: A World Away–and Worth It So what if you have to endure endless hours in the air and shake out your piggy bank. Nothing this pure comes easy. By Trish Reynales The…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 No More Curse of the Sheepherders But why would such a wholesome nation want the America’s Cup? By Randy Wayne White All things considered, the best place for a journalist to watch the finals of America’s Cup XXIX…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1996 Equipage: Lead Us Not Into Titanium Grant Petersen, messiah to cycling Luddites, unveils his latest low-tech creation By Weston Kosova In May 1995, Grant Petersen scrawled three words in his diary: “Time to panic.” For six months,…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 St. Vincent/Grenadines By Jonathan Runge If the British Virgin Islands are the junior college of Caribbean sailing, the Grenadines are graduate school: Relatively long stretches of open water between the 30-odd islands south of St. Vincent make…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Buying Right: Bodacious Rooftop Boxes By John Lehrer Adding a cargo box to your roof rack is like building a new room on your car. All of the things that crowd your backseat when the trunk overfloweth–backpacks, ski boots, cooking…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1996 Prescriptions: Doctoring for the Downside By Andrew Tilin The flip side of downhill training is that it can be hard on your joints and tendons. “Ankles are an obvious concern when you’re running downhill,” says Richard Watkins, a strength and…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1996 Downhill Bracer For runners, hikers, and skiers in training, the best offense is a good descent By Andrew Tillin When Bill McDermott crests the hill near the 23-mile mark of his beloved Catalina Marathon, he approaches the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1995 Books: Our Just Deserts By Miles Harvey Our Just Deserts Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America, by Charles Bowden (Random House, $23). “We may be the real endangered species,” declares Bowden, the megavolt social critic and…